I watched this documentary miniseries when I was 12, and I think it influenced me quite a bit. It’s about the nature of reality and perception.

James Burke: The Real Thing

Is it the entire series in one video?

SCIENCE said:

Is it the entire series in one video?

Yes.

There’s a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn’t really mean a thing…

furious said:

There’s a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn’t really mean a thing…

Trying hard to understand that.

sibeen said:

furious said:

There’s a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn’t really mean a thing…

Trying hard to understand that.

Is it something you could go and see?

Rule 303 said:

sibeen said:

furious said:

There’s a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn’t really mean a thing…

Trying hard to understand that.

Is it something you could go and see?

Really not.

sibeen said:

Rule 303 said:

sibeen said:

Trying hard to understand that.

Is it something you could go and see?

Really not.

Really?

furious said:

sibeen said:

Rule 303 said:

Is it something you could go and see?

Really not.

Really?

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dv said:

I watched this documentary miniseries when I was 12, and I think it influenced me quite a bit. It’s about the nature of reality and perception.

James Burke: The Real Thing

Watched first episode, half hour. Really good.

Doesn’t say about using multiple senses at once though. The coincidence about multiple senses agreeing on what is really there is what I use as a guide to what is really happening.

If I see my finger press the key ‘E’, feel the pressure on my finger, and hear the sound of the key being depressed, then that’s a double coincidence – which for me is good enough to bet on, unlike the single sense at a time in the video, which leads our detective astray.

The power of coincidence.

I started watching video but was late, doing other things

>The coincidence about multiple senses agreeing on what is really there is what I use as a guide to what is really happening

I call that sensory correspondence, or correspondence of the senses

of course seasickness etc is caused by wobbles in the correspondence, dyscorrespondence if you like (input conflict they might call it)

though convincing, I don’t entirely trust sensory correspondence, I mean the mind tends to collect information from correspondences, operate in that territory, it’s attracted to that territory, but in another way consciousness operated from tricks that are something else

like the force of mind tool configurations change with mental states, I regularly bump into the sensation the normal reality of sustained wakefulness is not as it seems, especially just after woken

what happens when your senses fold back in the retreat of sleep, for example, your impressions (whatever) are not tied by usual correspondence, and I ask are there conscious creatures (or other machine, any examples) that have ever exhibited consciousness that haven’t slept, or otherwise somewhat detached its processes from the senses, immediacy of senses, had the experience of both, coupled and uncoupled